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So Bob Rusch, co-founder of L.A.-based SkyPilot Theatre, had this epiphany:

He would throw SkyPilot into the breach by producing only world premieres of plays only by L.A.-based playwrights…a handpicked, ten-person resident playwrights unit that would write to the strengths of the ensemble, which would in turn exclusively produce their plays.